a new love, win4lin crap is out, supermount is out and some brand new VM patches from Nick.

Hmm ... may I ask why supermount is out again? In - Out - In - Out ...? I think it not very desirable having to constantly change configuration when updating this kernel. Maybe love is too much flux for me

a new love, win4lin crap is out, supermount is out and some brand new VM patches from Nick.

Hmm ... may I ask why supermount is out again? In - Out - In - Out ...? I think it not very desirable having to constantly change configuration when updating this kernel. Maybe love is too much flux for me

well it was kept for user requests, now you dont have any reason to use it.
submount is in portage, use it people!
or even better, use udev+dbus+hal.

a new love, win4lin crap is out, supermount is out and some brand new VM patches from Nick.

Hmm ... may I ask why supermount is out again? In - Out - In - Out ...? I think it not very desirable having to constantly change configuration when updating this kernel. Maybe love is too much flux for me

well it was kept for user requests, now you dont have any reason to use it.
submount is in portage, use it people!
or even better, use udev+dbus+hal.

a new love, win4lin crap is out, supermount is out and some brand new VM patches from Nick.

Hmm ... may I ask why supermount is out again? In - Out - In - Out ...? I think it not very desirable having to constantly change configuration when updating this kernel. Maybe love is too much flux for me

well it was kept for user requests, now you dont have any reason to use it.
submount is in portage, use it people!
or even better, use udev+dbus+hal.

I have a abit nf7-s mobo (nforce2 chipset) and a GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE, I bet one of those make things hard for me. Is the "nforce2-disconnect-quirk.patch.bz2" patch in main kernel now?
I use the nvidia drivers 1.0.5336-r2

On an old Pentium 1 it seems to make a huge difference in performance when the internal timer frequency is set to 100. For example prior to changing the value the processor usage of xmms was around 8-9% when playing mp3s. Now it is only 0.3-0.7%... And thats without any noticeable drawbacks.

Is it out of love for ever? If yes, why? And where can I find that patch?

Problem 2:
Both of these version should have dxr3 support but I really can't find it

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Con's auto-swappiness patch is "broken" by nick's VM work, although it could be modified with very little work to have the same effect. Those observant will see that /proc/sys/vm/swappiness is no longer around. Nick's VM replaces it with /proc/sys/vm/mapped_page_cost which is the same idea inverted: a low number means a lot of swapping. Recent kernel threads have been back and forth on if this is good or bad. For those worshipping the kernel hackers, Andrew sets his swappiness to 100 (swap whenever remotely necessary, essentially), which is a low number in mapped_page_cost (the default is 8 - pretty low). So play around with this.

CFQ is in mainline now. The version we used to include was CFQ + more hacks that no one actually used. We dropped that in favor of -mm's CFQ (thus reviving AS), and that CFQ has gone mainline._________________Website - All sorts of nonsense (some of it actually Linux related)

As Nate_S said, HAL stands for Hardware Abstraction Layer. As for what it is, try the following:

(1) Emerge gentoolkit-dev, and use gensync to get the BreakMyGentoo overlay. (gensync bmg-main should do it).
(2) Emerge gnome-volume-manager-cvs. This will pull in DBUS and HAL as dependencies.
(3) Start the messagebus and hald services.
(4) Run gnome-volume-properties, and check the box that says "Mount removable media when inserted".
(5) Insert a CD.

The performance difference is quite noticeable with these patches under a heavy load. For instance, with X reniced to -15, I can have an emerge world and kernel compile running in background consoles with no noticeable slowdown in X. I've been manually adding these to each love release, but is there any chance of getting them included in the patch?